Chapter 57 A flash
Alessia’s POV
I wake up abrubtly leaning back in my chair. I glance at Alex he seems to be reading a business magazine. Luca on the other hand is sleeping soundly.. I rotate my head slowly trying to remove the kinks then I reach for my laptop to continue my lessons. I still feel a bit sleepy but I blink it away rapidly. I can't avoid my lessons forever. As I power on my laptop and the screen lights up. Alex glances at me “How was your sleep Cara Mia?.”
I shiver it sounds so sexy when he draws out my name like that his voice a deep rumble .I give him a shy smile my cheeks heating from my wayward thoughts. Thank Dios he can't read minds... I face him “Yes Alex I want to continue my lessons now”
He nods at me “good girl” and he picks up his magazine to continue reading.
Angelica sits opposite me pressing her forehead on the window, her small bag held tightly on her lap as if the contents are fragile. I face my screen and open Microsoft word to read the translated notes Padre sent. I come across some symbols that look like old ancient language. Untranslated and complex: I look closely again and shake my head there is no way I will be able to decipler this on my own. I turn to Angelica tilting my laptop screen to her
“Please do you understand this script?” I ask in a hushed tone not wanting to wake Luca or disturb Alex
She turns her head to the screen and stares at it for a moment.
She nods “Yes I understand some of it, let me have a better look” she gestures for me to give her the laptop and I hand it over she studies the screen. Reaching for her bag she pulls out a notebook and pen. Her fingers brush on the screen lightly as she leans in and examines the script again
“Writing it into the notebook” she whispers “This is a very old forgotten language. It was mostly how they conversed in the olden days- the coven elders.” she pauses between scribbles “It is how they wrote when they wanted only the true bloods to understand”
Her calm reasoning sends fear racing across my arms as I shiver running my hands over my arms lightly Swallowing, I lick my lips “can you read all of it?”
She nods “yes but I will have to translate in bits”
Alex hears her and looks toward us but he says nothing. He returns to his magazine pretending like he isn't listening but I know better .
Angelica coughs gently to clear her throat .Then she starts writing again and reading
“ When the time clocks and the shadow covers the crown, the girl bound and taken out of the circle will rise. Her name unknown but called over foreign seas, her journey filled with trials and tribulations. She will awaken where the old power rests. She will defeat the dark and fall the light to the forgotten halls. She alone shall-”
Angelica hesitates scribbling again her brows drawn together in concentration “The script is incomplete Alessia, The rest is intelligible it seems to have been left blank the lesson jumps back to the normal English”
I suck in a deep breath “What or who do you think the script is referring to?.” I wring my hands together nervously waiting for her response .
She pauses as she scrunched her eyes thinking
“It is a prophesy she mutters and it's very specific about a woman who is not apart of the coven but will align with them due to fate”
She glances at me for a moment…
And I noticed something in her eyes
A flash
Gold speckles in her Pupils
As Bright as a jewel
I freeze as my heart becomes heavy
Then her eyes clears as if it was never there, and I wondering if my eyes are playing tricks on me.Angelica look back at me with her calm grey eyes blinking as if nothing happened a moment ago
Alessia is something wrong? She asks softly
I let out a deep breath “No it's nothing please continue” I lie with a straight face
She gives me a tight smile “there is nothing else here is the scripts she tears the note from her book and hands it over to me”
I accept it with trembling hands “Thank you”
I sigh glancing out the window as the plane flies over the clouds...
On my side I sense Alex shifting as he asks Angelica.”This prophecy you just translated do you think it is about Alessia” I feel my eyes widen in panic as I glance at Angelica I need to gauge her reaction to his question. I watch her keenly ,as she folds her hands and sets her lips on a tight line
“I don't know if it is about her” she answers “ But that's why I joined you to assist in translating any old tests we found. Not all the lessons will be in full English”
My palms feel sweaty ans I run them on my dress. I pick up the paper looking at the translated script again the words blurring for a moment
“She will awaken where the old power rests. …”
Fear races through me as I pick up my rosary and start counting it again
Alex glances at me sensing my unease. “Aleessia are you okay?.” His voice is low and full of concern
I glance at him giving him a small smile “It's nothing Alex, I am fine just thinking” I can feel Angelica’s eyes on me before she shifts her bag holding it closer to her chest .For a moment everything is quiet, too quiet .I glance at my laptop. The incomplete script glaring at me like a beacon…
Something is telling me the part that is missing is the most important part of the entire script
The plane continues to move, stable with no turbulence whatsoever but inside me?
Inside me something has already shifted!